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A society's commitment to truth-telling matters because most individual beliefs are inherited from the surrounding society rather than independently verified
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First, if most of our beliefs are handed to us by the society in which we live, it is vital that our society itself values truth and truth-telling.
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↗Why the story of the Vegetable Lamb was believedtimharford.com
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